MavensMate: An Open Source Alternative to the Force.com IDE
1. MavensMate: An Open Source
Alternative to the Force.com IDE
Developers
Joe Ferraro, Mavens, CTO
@joeferraro
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7. Why I Built MavensMate
• Deployment connections
• Async deployments
• Pretty unit test results
• Ability to become proficient with the Metadata API
• Ability to work on something fun/different
8. What are the ingredients?
• SublimeText
• Python & Ruby
• Salesforce.com Metadata API
• MavensMate.app
• HTML/CSS/Javascript
9. Python
• Command language for Sublime Text
• Handles high level requests from Sublime Text, passes to
Ruby APIs via terminal
• Evaluates JSON response from Ruby commands, displays
response in debug panel
11. Ruby
• Rails-like, basic MVC framework
• Daemonized WEBrick server
• Savon gem to handle the painful SOAP exchanges
• Rubyzip gem to handle the zipping/unzipping of directories
• ERB to produce metadata shells
13. MavensMate.app
• OSX app that’s effectively a fancy webshell
• Ruby generates a UI in HTML/CSS/Javascript,
MavensMate displays it in a WebView
• Interacts with a daemonized WEBRick server via
jQuery
15. High-Level Feature List
• Create new project
• Edit project metadata
• Import/checkout SVN repo or clone Git repo
• Create/Edit Apex Classes, Apex Triggers, Visualforce Pages, & Visualforce Components
• Run Apex unit tests
• Play Pacman while your Apex unit tests run!
• Deploy to server
• Execute anonymous
• Apex code assist (beta)
16. Where can I get it?!
mavens.io/mavensmate
OR
mavens.io/mm
17. Demo (deep dive) Agenda
• New project & metadata creation
• Compile new metadata
• Run Apex unit tests
• Deploy to server
18. All About Mavens mavens.io
Mavens is a technology company focused on delivering
disruptive services, solutions, and products to our
customers in the Life Sciences industry. Our mission is
to provide a unique, best-in-class experience to every
one of our end-users, customers, and partners.
We work with 8 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies in the world
Our culture is centered around creativity & happiness not billable
hours and the bottom line
3 Salesforce.com & Force.com MVPs on staff
Experimentation and risk-taking is encouraged
